Essays on Modern American Drama
Contents: Part 1. Tennessee Williams, 1911-1983. Myth as a basis of dramatic structure in Orpheus descending / Nancy Baker Traubitz ; The composition of The glass menagerie : an argument for complexity / Brian Parker ; Realism and theatricalism in A streetcar named Desire / Mary Ann Corrigan ; The grotesque children of The rose tattoo / Leland Starnes -- pt. 2. Arthur Miller, 1915-[2005]. All my sons and the larger context / Barry Gross ; The fall and after : Arthur Miller's confession / C.W.E. Bigsby ; Arthur Miller's The crucible : background and sources / Robert A. Martin ; Arthur Miller's Incident at Vichy : a Sartrean interpretation / Lawrence D. Lowenthal -- Pt. 3. Edward Albee, 1928- . Tragic vision in The zoo story / Robert B. Bennett ; Games people play in Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? / Joy Flasch ; Curiouser and curiouser : a study of Edward Albee's Tiny Alice / C.W.E. Bigsby ; Death as a mirror of life : Edward Albee's All over / Robbie Odom Moses ; Albee's Seascape : an adult fairy tale / Lucina P. Gabbard -- pt. 4. Sam Shepard, 1943- . Defusion of menace in the plays of Sam Shepard / Charles R. Bachman ; The tooth of crime : Sam Shepard's way with music / Bruce W. Powe ; Mythic levels in Shepard's True West / Tucker Orbison ; Sam Shepard's Buried child : the ironic use of folklore / Thomas Nash.